The systematic extermination of around 80% of the Herero people and 50% of the Nama was the work both of German soldiers and colonial administrators; banal, desk-bound killers.
Escritorio (1650 - 1700) Ms. Davis called this elaborate fall-front desk a "Spanish Colonial laptop," since it was made for travel.
It is widely known that the classical sandwich stems from the Earl of Sandwich, who consumed many at his work desk overseeing Britain's colonial navy, but it would have actually been first constructed by his servant.
Another gallery is devoted to Colonial furniture, where mid-18th-century chests, desks and clocks are displayed on platforms as if they were carefully carved sculptures, instead of shown in a domestic setting like furniture in the period rooms.
IN a renovated colonial, where the garage once was, is the two-desk, one-computer office of a fledgling record company.
CONNECTICUT: 7 Ennis Lane A four-bedroom two-and-a-half-bath renovated colonial with a family room with fireplace; study with built-in desk and shelves; dining room with wet bar and French doors to patio; and two-car attached garage, on 0.17 acres on a cul-de-sac.
The house, a colonial revival, has details that include a library with custom-made, built-in desks; a cherry wood wet bar in the family room; and a master bedroom with French doors leading to a private deck.
Mr. Utshudi, ever the bureaucrat, keeps a desk, stacked high with papers enumerating the needs of his beloved railroad, inside the stately colonial-era post office.
The exhibition also contains the work desk and tools of John Ramage, who became the leading miniaturist in New York City at the end of the colonial period.
While she was shooting at the Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen's home in Antwerp, which boasts a rosewood desk and several cane V-chairs, he described the pieces to Siegel as "strong western Modernistic design with a colonial touch".
